A pre-project has been used to develope the comprehensive program with support from the Barents Health Program. A steering group is established and the program is developed as an activity under the Norwegian National Centre of Rural Medicine (NCRM) at UiT with Svein Steinert as responsible person. Two tutors were appointed in both Norway and Russia, and the first 8 colleagues in each county were selected in autumn 2008 (here all participants of all years listed)
Norwegian participants:
May-Brith Lund MD Svein Steinert MD
Peter Prydz MD Anton Giever MD
Oleg Siderenkov MD
Russian participants
Natalia Romanova MD Elena Alexandrovna MD
Dmitriy Bakhtin MD Marina Bakurovna MD
Inga Aniskovna MD Elena Lobanova MD
Olga Fedulova MD Yuriy Pankov MD
Raylya Lasynova MD Natalya Panasyuk MD
Irina Kudryavtseva MD Tatjana Baeva MD
Nicolaj Vojtovich MD Svetlana Fesyko MD
Nina Sukhikh MD Elena Andreeva MD
Alexei Nikitin MD Elena Zhuk MD
Andrey Evseev MD Irina Komarova MD
Svetlana Zharavina MD Natalya Muratkina MD
Elenea Zinina MD Galina Rusanova MD
Tatjana Baeva MD Elena Dolotova MD
Anton Khismatulllin MD
The formal program started in March 2009. A two years education program was created, leading up to a formal accreditation of the 8 x 2 colleagues in June 2011. An important part of the GP trainee contracts was to be tutors for new groups of Russian colleagues from 2011/2012- phase I and Phase II